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The residents are coming out and saying this is our town our city. our issue is justice being served. there were a few aberrant and i know that was a terrible scene we saw last night and a little bit on saturday but the greater majority so a few hundred people versus hundreds of thousands of residents of baltimore city have come out of their homes and said this is baltimore. this is our baltimore. and they're showing just who we are and why we're standing up for justice. not only for freddie gray but for all of the freddie grays that have been killed or brutalized in baltimore. >> councilman i...

During the case? >> well you were talking to your guests earlier about motive. let me ask you this. when was the last time you heard of somebody shooting somebody else because they didn't shake their hand? it doesn't happen. that's not what happens with normal human beings. what that is that's a crazy person. all of this stuff about motive. and the profound lack of a motive. the utter lack of a capacity to explain why something happened. not necessarily legally relevant, or at least not an element of the case. it shows to my mind just how aberrant. and what is mental illness but aberrant. >> t...

Aberrant. and what is mental illness but aberrant. >> they came back very quickly, why? is this a deficiency in the legal structures available to them in the courtroom? >> in a way, yes. >> or instead of the prosecution and the defense? >> no. i don't think it is a failure of the prosecution or the defense. i think it is a failure of the system more generally. entire idea of not guilty by reason of insanity. and frankly, the difficulty in overcoming the mcnaughton rule which says you have to know it is wrong. asking people to say, you didn't know it is wrong is very, very hard to do. especiall...

Promotion cost. all that goes out the window. sony trying to kill its advertising -- television advertising right now and recoup some of that money, but extremely costly. that's to say nothing of the tens of millions of dollars in repairing their cyber network, their computer network and any kind of legal liability the company faced. so a very, very costly experience. >> reporting in hollywood, is this seen as a sony problem or a story about a particular movie that was aberrant, was weird, that went really far in a story line about assassinating a current leader or is this a bigger story now t...

Experience. >> reporting in hollywood, is this seen as a sony problem or a story about a particular movie that was aberrant, was weird, that went really far in a storyline about assassinating a current leader or is this a bigger story now that people are feeling square eing bigger story now that people are feeling square ein scared acros industry? >> the silence was deafening, very few a-list director, big studio executives came out and went to bat for sony. >> why? >> a lot of it was fear. >> fear. >> they were worried about repercussions and any kind of potential punishment they might face i...